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UN Women Pakistan is seeking to hire an Evaluation Team-Leader to conduct the end term evaluation of its project “Prevention and Protection of Women from Violence Through Access to Justice, Services and Safe Spaces” funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL US State Department) under the UN Women EVAW unit at the Pakistan Country Office.

The theory of change for this project is based on a number of principles:

Context is critical: successful interventions are those that are tailored and based on rigorous analysis of the particular factors affecting violence against women in a specific context, including setting, form of violence and population affected by the violence.

The state has primary responsibility for action on violence against women and girls: federal and provincial governments hold the ultimate responsibility for implementing laws, policies and services around violence against women and can achieve change on violence against women.

Holistic and multi-sectoral approaches are more likely to have impact: coordinated interventions operating at multiple levels, across sectors and over multiple time-frames are more likely to address the various aspects of, and therefore have greater impact on, tackling violence against women.

Social change makes the difference: sustained reduction in violence against women will only occur through processes of significant social change, including in social norms, at all levels.

Purpose of Evaluation:

To conduct an end term evaluation of a project title ‘Prevention and Protection of Women from Violence through Access to Justice, Services and Safe Spaces’ funded by the US State Department-INL.

Accountability:

Learning:

Improve evidence-based decision making:

Use of the Evaluation Report

Existing Information Sources

Existing information sources of programme include: Project Pro Doc, baseline report, Donor Reports, training reports, mission reports, monitoring visit reports, project IPs’ progress reports, quarterly report and previous external review report, etc.

Guidance on Methodology:

All evaluation processes at UN Women establish mechanisms to ensure high quality evaluation processes and products as outlined in the UN Women Evaluation Policy and Handbook. This will be a gender-responsive evaluation, which means the principles of human rights should be integrated: the process of evaluating the project should be participatory, inclusive, promoting maximum input from all relevant stakeholders, and should actively analyse the structural and cultural barriers that impede the achievement of gender equality and women’s human rights. The cultural context and language/s of operation must be taken into consideration in the design of the evaluation approach and data collection methods.

Note: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people around the world are being asked to socially distance themselves, or in some cases are under mandatory lockdown. These dynamics have created unique challenges for those seeking to be vigilant, while also trying to maintain normalcy in their lives. Pakistan experienced a locked down in all 4 provinces including the Islamabad (ICT), in the 3rd and 4th week of March 2020. The situation continues to remain unclear therefore this evaluation might experience restrictions of inter-provincial travel depending on the prevailing situation and certain in person meetings will have to be replaced by telephonic and skype interviews.

Stakeholder Engagement:

Evaluation Objectives:

The evaluation will address the OECD-DAC criteria of Project Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Sustainability and human rights and gender equality.

The objectives of the evaluation are to:

Measuring effectiveness

Validate programme results in terms of achievements and/ or weaknesses with regard to the planned outcomes and outputs, with a critical examination of how/ to what extent the programme succeeded in contributing to the creation of an enabling environment for improved Access to Justice and creation of safe spaces.

Education and Functional Competencies of the Evaluation Specialist:

EVALUATION ETHICS

UN Women has developed a UN Women Evaluation Consultants Agreement Form for evaluators that must be signed as part of the contracting process, which is based on the UNEG Ethical Guidelines and Code of Conduct. These documents will be annexed to the contract. All data collected by the team members must be submitted to the evaluation manager in Word, PowerPoint or Excel formats and is the property of UN Women. Proper storage of data is essential for ensuring confidentiality. The UNEG guidelines note the importance of ethical conduct for the following reasons:

1. Responsible use of power: All those engaged in evaluation processes are responsible for upholding the proper conduct of the evaluation.

2. Ensuring credibility: With a fair, impartial and complete assessment, stake- holders are more likely to have faith in the results of an evaluation and to take note of the recommendations.

3. Responsible use of resources: Ethical conduct in evaluation increases the chances of acceptance by the parties to the evaluation and therefore the likelihood that the investment in the evaluation will result in improved outcomes.

The evaluation’s value added is its impartial and systematic assessment of the programme or intervention. As with the other stages of the evaluation, involvement of stakeholders should not interfere with the impartiality of the evaluation. The evaluator(s) have the final judgment on the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the evaluation report, and the evaluator(s) must be protected from pressures to change information in the report.

Proper procedures for data collection with rights holders who may have been affected by violence must be adhered to as outlined in the WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for research on violence against women.

Additionally, if the evaluator(s) identify issues of wrongdoing, fraud or other unethical conduct, UN Women procedures must be followed and confidentiality be maintained. The UN Women Legal Framework for Addressing Non-Compliance with UN Standards of Conduct, and accompanying policies protecting against retaliation and prohibiting harassment and abuse of authority, provide a cohesive framework aimed at creating and maintaining a harmonious working environment, ensuring that staff members do not engage in any wrongdoing and that all allegations of wrongdoing are reported promptly, investigated and appropriate action taken to achieve accountability. The UN Women Legal Framework for Addressing Non-Compliance with UN Standards of Conduct defines misconduct and the mechanisms within UN Women for reporting and investigating.

The Evaluation Specialist is also required to complete mandatory trainings and sign the code of conduct.

Core values / guiding principles:

The Evaluation Specialist will adhere to the following core values and guiding principles:

• Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
• Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Guiding Principles and Code of Conduct To ensure the credibility and integrity of the evaluation process and following United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Ethical Guidelines, the Consultants will be required to commit to the Code of Conduct for Evaluation (see http://www.unevaluation.org/document/detail/102), specifically to the following obligations: